biography
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| male
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| lived:
| (1923–94)
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| biography:
| Composer and lyricist, born in Llanelli, Carmarthenshire, SW Wales, UK. He began his writing career by contributing music to revues such as Penny Plain (1951), Airs on a Shoestring (1953), and Pay the Piper (1954). His long collaboration with Michael Flanders began in 1956, when he wrote the music, and Flanders the words and dialogue, for At the Drop of a Hat, followed by At the Drop of Another Hat in 1965. From the 1970s he became a frequent broadcaster on musical and other matters, and wrote a musical fable for Christmas and three books of carols. |
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